Doesn GILS duplicate what Web search engines accomplish more easily?
No, although the two are complementary in some respects and have some overlap. In common usage, the term “Web search engines” encompasses two distinct processes. One process is the building of an index to Web resources by “crawling” along hypertext links. GILS does not address how records are created or managed. Web crawling is one of the many ways used to populate a set of records (see ). The other process used by Web search engines involves a Web user interface with various features that permit searching of the index. Although GILS does not address user interfaces, search features do relate to GILS. (Also, see for a discussion of “search portals”.) See also .
